The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-01
Items OF Interest.

GeOGfni Assembly Judge w Ill. "a VI
Shreveport, late Minister TO Bolivia, has an.
nounced himself as a candidate for the United
State Senate from this State.
The two democratic executive committees
of Rapides have harmOniZed, by electlng
new committee, composed of ten members
from each of the old committees, and the de-
mocracy of Rapides is now ready to present
solid front in the campaign.
N. o. City Item: The Forthcoming annual
report of Supervising Architect Freret will
recommend an appropriation of $3.50, ,OOO tor
the purpose of placing two additional stories
npon the Custom House building in New
York city.
Ida Lewis, the heroine of Lime Rock, lives
alone in the light house, her parents being
dead and her brother gone to follow the sea.
Miss Lew is saved thirteen lives between 1869
and 1881. She does all her own houseWOrk,
keeps the light trimmed and burning ana
finds time to raise a few flowers in the crew.
ces of the rocks.
Ben Butler has not yet joined the Anti.Pov-
erty Society. This is liable to mean that there
will be five Presidential candidates IN the neid
next year. With Democrat, Reformer, An
ti-Poyertyite, Butler and prohibltIonist IN ~
the field, the NEST fastidous voter VIII
have chasce to find solae one approaching
his ideal Missouri Republican, Dem.
N o. States If the report is true that DR.
Burchard. of the three RS fame, is to support
President Cleveland in 1888 the Democrats
up just before the election is held. He is
dangerous man to be allowed to go foot-loose
and unmuzzled. IF you don't believe it just
aspa gentleman by the name of james e.
Blaine
NO. States The Nichols Reform Show
aud BC .becue Company made its appearance
at Tangipaghoa yesterday, and what was lack
ing in enthusiasm was made up in roasted
beet. After the late war had been fought over
aud the beef consumed, the band played and
the show gathered mp its grip sack and moved
over to Greensburg, where another PERFORM
| ance will be given.
N o. City Item A telegram thence an
nounces that large delegations of citizens from
| all parts of the State are constantly arriving
| in Fort Scott, Kan and bent upon examin-
| ing the success of the sorghum sugar process
Each delegation, after investigation, pro-
uounce the sorghum eugar works of Judge
Parkinson the grandest success, and return
determined to establish a plant in their own
| locality.
| San Antonio, Texas, was the successful COM
petitor for the honor of entertaining the next
meeting of the National Press Association.
New Orleans was ably advocated by Mr.. j. B..
Wilkinson, Jr., of the City Item On the first
ballot the vote stood: New Orleans 80; San
Antonio 81 Wilmington 81, On the second
| ballot San Antonio, So, New Orleans, 81: and
Wilmi---son, 26. Wilmington was then drop
ped and New Orleans withdrawn, thus giving
the honor to San Antonio.
| N o. Chronicle: We cannot be made to be-
| lieve that the people Of Louisiana, prema-
turely and artifcially aroused by Col: Hoi-
lingsworths tin horn and Gen. Nichols re-
sponsiye miniature war whoop, Will oe 80 iaf
misled as to select the General as the success
sor of MeEnery, whom the formers partisans
have from the beginning. and have to the end
so much traduced, vllified and maligned. We
believe in the peoples love of fair play.
Gen. Nichols should be lttired because of the
villifcation in his name CT Democratic ad
mnistration.
Rayne Signal: The warehouse portion OF the
rice mill building will soon be completed and
ready for the storage of rne, after which
work will be redoubled on the other portion
of the building in order to get it ready for th'
machinery one car load of which arrived or
the 10th inst.-The excavation for the found
alton of the courthouse at Crowley, has been
completed and put in readiness for the wOrt
to be commenced on next Monday. the weathel
permitting. The work on the building VIII
then be steadily pushed TO completion by th'
contractor, Mr.. Harmon.
West Baton Rouge Sugar Planter! We hea
it whispered around that the woods in thi
parish are full of candidates who are anxious
, to serve the dear people in the various paro
chial positions, from Represe ntative down O
ward constables and justices OF the peace. A
the first important step toward securing sue
, cess in an election, it is necessary that eae
and every candidate should put his nam
prominently before the people, which can b
: done at nominal cost through the column
, of the Planter. Come up, candidates, and al
nounce yourselves!
, Capitolian- Advocate: 1t is strange, yet trus
that the bare mention of any progress an
prosperity that has occurred in Louisiana dn
ing the uast four years. has the same effet
r upon our Reform friends that the shaking
. | a red flag has on mad bull. StraIghtwa
q . | they attack it as fabrication and attempt
| a>al: kI,ab bou offnrfa that h0yA hpan mad
: by the State administration to give alfth
a aid the State could afford to aid its agricuttl
. raj and mercantile interests bS giving actls
r and substantial encouragement to agrlcuit
| raj organizations, and to the construction I
n their leyees. We imagine however that tt
e good people of Louisiana see that such opp
a sition is born of jealousy and that the moti'
q therefor will pass away and be forgotte
J. while the works of the present Democrat
=, administration will live q monument to wal
/ future generations against monkeylng WI
{. that green-eyed monster, Jealousy.
l. NO. States It is not because he is "plai
Il blunt man. that we oppose Gov. Nichol
& INIT because he has been saturated with fla
y terry by designing politicians, like Senat
3, Gibson aud Mr.. HOllingsworth, that he no
d i'm all .earnestness, looks upon himself as
% "little tiu-god ON wheels" whose mission pl
10 ordained. is to save the people from the Lo
e knows what. and at all hazards to everla
~ @-~N
y igated ''rascals."
If to expose the emptiness of this neo-salv
u tion plan is to injure Gen Nichols; if to de
G and refute his assumption, or the assumptio
Is ofhis friends for him, of virtue superior
y that of every other Democrat in the State.
to injure Nichols if to say that Moncure,
le han, Cunningham, knObloch, Jeffries, are
is peers in every particular, and beyond dou
Is his superior in undertaking and well defin
" democracy, is to injure Nichols; then are
u guilty, and, in final impenitence, should
s, hanged without benefit OF clergy.
xt Before the Democracy of the State {
IL make up its mind to nominate Gen. Nicho
RI says the Tensas Gazette, it must agree to
following startling propositions and ineOr
rate them in the party platform
G. /. That, however griev0us may be
wrongs they suffer, however onerous and
N. grading may be the burden of negro and
W publican misrule, any effort made by Der
he Gratis to relieve themselves is utterly &i-
or and without Justification Fer this Der
se- cratic ~ proposition our readers are refer
80 to the Nichols message to the Legislature
ty 1879 on the ..Tensas Affair"
lIyl 9. That whenever nominations does
n meet the approval of Democratic minoi
re- that bolt and the support of an independ
lid candidate IS their remedy.
le- For the enunciation of this rule of Del
ir- cratic conduct, reference is made to
be course of Gen. Nichols in the Hnnt-St.
Is tin campaign.
rk We submit that it is scarcely possible
ry- evolve, by the employment OF ever SO m
he ingenuity, two doctrines so subversive OF
is traditions Of our party and OF our ideas
,ty right and wrong as the above two fni
ck- mental propositions of the Nichols DE
bis. cracy.
tryi Adherence now to such monstr0ue thee
ted ia tn rive the lie to everything that the LII